Game or puzzle.



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GAME 0R PU ZZLE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 12, I915.

1 1 86,395. Pater med June 6, 1916.

,lmid nln l GEORGE HAUBNER, OF CLIFTON SPRINGS, NEW YORK.

GAME 0R PUZZLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Application filed April 12, 1915. Serial No. 20,805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HAUBNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Clifton Springs, in the county of Ontario and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games orPuzzles, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to an improvement in games or puzzles, and itcomprises a box having a false bottom. with holes therein suitablyspaced apart, and partitions having recesses therebetween, thus dividingthe false bottom into compartments, and a movable object, such forinstance as a ball, which is intended to be moved or rolled from onecompartment to another, the trick being to do this without permittingthe movable object or ball to drop into any of the holes.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2 shows theblank from which the bottom is made; Fig. 3 is a cross section taken onthe line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. l is a detached view of one of thepartitions.

A, represents the box, and 1 is the false bottom, preferably made of ablank as shown in Fig. 2, with the four edges 3, 3, secured for thepurpose of foldingthem at right-angles as a means of support for thefalse bottom at the edges, and for gluing or otherwise securing thefalse bottom within the sides of the box, which the false bottom is madeto fit. Slits 4, l, are made in the bottomto receive the partitions 5,5, which preferably extend both above and below the false bottom todivide the surface of the false bottom into the three compartments 6, 7and 8, and also to extend from one compartment 6 to the other 8 withoutdropping into one of the holes 11, the

space between the holes being sufficiently large to admit of this, ifthe hand of the operator is'sufliciently steady to guide the movableobject or ball around the holes or pitfalls in its path.

l'lliS game or puzzle is not only entertaining and a test of skill,patience and steadiness of the nerves of the operator, but also it iscapable of being easily and inexpensively made andmarketed.

I claim:

A game or puzzle comprising a box, a false-bottom, the edges of whichare bent and secured to the box, said false bottom having slits therein,partitions in said slits where they are secured and extending both aboveand below the false bottom to divide the latter into compartments andalso support it between its edges, the central compartment having holestherein opposite the openings between the ends of the partitions. Intestimony whereof I affix my signa ture in the presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE HAUBNER. Witnesses:

ELLIS MARTINWELD, JOHN BURKE.

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